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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler, eds.
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.
New York: Garland, 2000 (previously issued in hardback, 1997).
The New Middle Ages series, Vol. 4; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 2066.
ISBN 0815337701;
ISBN-13: 9780815337706.
Paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
140x215x11mm.
xx,387pp inc. 2 monochrome illustrations.
English.
Good to very good condition: some minor wear to the covers, including residue from a small sticker on the back, otherwise doesn't look heavily used.This item £14.00
[Publisher's price £19.99]
486g.
Contents:
Smith, Body doubles - producing the masculine corpus;
Kruger, Becoming Christian, becoming male?;
Frantzen, Children & sex in the Anglo-Saxon penitentials;
Townsend, Resistance to heroic masculinity in the Waltharius;
Irvine, Abelard & (re)writing the male body;
Wheeler, Abelard's castration & confession;
Ferrul, Abelard's blissful castration;
Wolfson, Becoming male & the ascetic ideal in 13th-c. Jewish mysticism;
Karras, Masculine identity formation in the medieval European universities;
Dunton-Downer, Wolf Man;
Cohen, Gowther among the dogs - becoming human c. 1400;
Burger, Inventing the body in Chaucer's Miller's Tale;
Sturges, The Pardoner, veiled & unveiled;
Putter, Transvestite knights in medieval life & literature;
Epp, Effeminacy, sodomy, & "Mankind";
Sponsler, Outlaw masculinites - drag, blackface, & late medieval laboring-class festivities;
Goldstein, Normative heterosexuality in history & theory - David Lindsay of the Mount;
Uebel, On becoming-male.
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